Get latest trades by congress members
AI agents call get_congress_recent_trades to retrieve information from Unusual Whales MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves historical congressional trading data for analysis purposes. While the underlying data relates to financial markets, the tool itself only reads/queries existing information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing transactions. No modifications, deletions, or financial transactions are performed.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_congress_recent_trades' and description 'Get latest trades by congress members' indicate data retrieval with no side effects. This queries publicly available congressional trading records.
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Get latest trades by congress members. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Unusual Whales MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Unusual Whales MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_congress_recent_trades: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Unusual Whales MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_congress_recent_trades is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the get_congress_recent_trades rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for get_congress_recent_trades. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
get_congress_recent_trades is provided by the Unusual Whales MCP Server MCP server (phields/unusualwhales-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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